What is "hyper"

1942 as a colloquial shortening of hyperactive.

Etymology 1 a. (context colloquial English) Short for hyperactive n. (context science fiction English) Short for hyperspace Etymology 2

n. (cx wrestling English) (alt form hiper English)

Etymology

hyper - comes from the ancient greek ὑπέρ and means over or above. Cognate to the latin super wiktionary:super-.

Hyper may refer to:

• A prefix used in mathematics to denote four or more dimensions, see four-dimensional space and higher dimension
  • Hypercube, a cube [0,1], where d > 3 (the word tesseract was used, especially in nineteenth and early twentieth century British semi-popular books on mathematics, to denote the special case d = 4)
  • Hyperplane, an affine subspace of codimension one in such a space
  • Hypersphere, a round sphere of dimension higher than 2, especially if embedded in such a space
  • Hypersurface, a submanifold of codimension one, especially if embedded in such a space (including hypersphere and hyperplane as special cases)
• A prefix often used in scientific and technical words, to denote something above or beyond the usual, normal, expected, or healthy level. Sometimes used to mean extreme or specifically "more than super-".
  • Hypersonic, much faster than the speed of sound, i.e. extremely supersonic
  • Hypernova, an explosion of an exceptionally large star i.e. even larger than a supernova
  • Hyperthermia, a condition of abnormally (and dangerously) high body temperature
  • Hyperglycemia, a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma
• A prefix used to denote content with hyperlinks on the Internet
  • Hypertext, text which contains hyperlinks
  • Hypermedia, extending the concept of hypertext to images, graphics, audio, etc.
• Hyperoperation, an arithmetic operation beyond exponentiation
• Hyperstructure, an algebraic structure equipped with at least one multivalued operation
• Hyper (magazine), an Australian video game magazine
• A slang term used to refer to hyperactivity, a medical notion describing a state in which a person is abnormally excitable and exuberant
• Hyper-threading, an implementation of simultaneous multithreading technology
• Hyper Island, a Swedish educational company
• Hyper (TV channel), an Philippine sports Pay TV Channel.
• Hyper engine, a hypothetical aircraft engine design
• DJ Hyper, a British electronic musician
• Europe Sails Hyper, an Austrian hang glider

Hyper is a multi-platform Australian video game magazine. Australia's longest running gaming magazine, it has been in publication since 1993. It is currently edited by Daniel Wilks.

Hyper's sister magazine is the PC game-oriented PC PowerPlay, also published by Next Media.

Hyper+ is a Polish television channel own and operated by Canal+. It shows the computer gaming and Japanese anime series. It's shown every night from 10pm to 2am on teleTOON+. Former Hyper is transmissed in the MiniMax (2001-2004), later on ZigZap. Hyper+ was closed on July 1, 2014.

Hyper is a Filipino sports and entertainment satellite and cable television channel based in Makati City. It is owned and operated by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund through TV5 and Sports5.

Hyper is a web application hybrid by the German software developer of that name, and is composed of Instagram and Reddit. It was released in mid 2015 as a free iPhone application download. The aspects of social media that are widely popular, such as user collaboration, and some form of audience voting are not lost in this application. Additionally, components of other social media sites, such as use of the Twitter hashtag to tweet with direct intent, add to the familiarity of Hyper, and the likelihood for the reason users uploaded well over 50,000 photos and viewed them under a million times in the application’s beta phase. Hyper is delineated from its social media counterparts as it has taken active counter measures against cyber harassment, such as directing intended users to specific content and allowing anonymous use of the site—user names are not linked to profiles with personal information. As opposed to single image posting applications, multiple photographs can be posted at once by end users. The application also pulls from other photo databases across the web (by search), for user contributions. Hyper allows for specified posting of photos—with the option to direct the content to Twitter, where like minded users can share immediately in the photo experience with you and assess and comment on your photos. Users vote up or down on image content posted by other users, and collect points as a result. These votes are what determine the place of the post in that particular hashtag feed. The application has grown in the year of its release, as has its relationship with Apple. Hyper’s focus on electing video of strong quality to stream for Apple TV. In conjunction with GE, Hyper content will be brought to the new Apple video streaming capability family.